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The percentage of Colorado students needing to take remedial courses at public colleges after graduating high school has gone up.
A report released by the Colorado Commission on Higher Education shows 31.8% tested below college level and had to enroll in remedial courses that don't. count toward a degree....

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - A new Colorado law freeing state universities to recruit more international students has prompted schools to begin aggressively courting foreigners who want to study in the United States and pay higher tuition.
The Daily Camera reports that Colorado State University is seriously considering hiring an...

Parents in Colorado may want to start putting more money into their kids' college fund. Almost all of the universities and colleges in our state are considering double digit tuition increases next year to overcome cuts in state funding.
Jill Brake of the Colorado Commission on Higher Education worries...

DENVER (AP) - A planning committee warns that Colorado voters and taxpayers need to come up with more money for higher education or the system is going to collapse.
Committee co-chair Jim Lyons says options include raising taxes, providing more state funding, charging higher fees for graduate programs and...

Colorado colleges are bracing for lower state funding next year and some are drafting alternative plans to raise tuition by more than 9 percent.
Rico Munn, director of the Colorado Department of Higher Education, said Wednesday colleges may have their state funding cut from $705 million this year to...

Many private colleges are sweetening financial aid packages for students from their own backyards. It's an effort by the schools to portray themselves as more affordable and better neighbors. They also want to stay competitive.
Among the schools is Northwestern University, which is targeting Chicago-area students in financial need....

The Colorado School of Mines and the University of Colorado are among nearly 70 schools nationwide participating in basic research funded by the Defense Department.
The projects, announced last week, will be paid for with $227 million in grants. The Defense Department hasn't said how much each school will...

Colleges would no longer be allowed to pay recruiters for students or engage in aggressive or misleading recruitment under proposed new federal regulations that target the practices of for-profit colleges.
The proposed new Department of Education rules are to be announced Wednesday. They apply to all colleges but are...

The Senate has given initial approval to a bill that would give Colorado colleges more flexibility to set tuition rates after lawmakers warned funding for colleges is headed for a cliff in the next year or two.
Sen. John Morse, a Colorado Springs Democrat, says the state plans to...

College presidents and educators are telling Colorado lawmakers they need flexibility to set tuition rates if the state wants them to give up $300 million in state funding.
Sen. John Morse, a Colorado Springs Democrat, says that's the only way colleges can stay open if the state cuts their...

The tradition of Hasty Pudding continued Thursday with actress Anne Hathaway.
"Oh, I think it couldn't be more beautiful.. a very Hasty pudding parade," Hathaway said.
Hundreds lined Mass Avenue in Cambridge to honor Hasty Pudding's Woman of the Year.
The celebration continued with a roast.
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Gov. Bill Ritter is meeting with Colorado college presidents again. The governor on Thursday is expected to announce a strategic review of the state's higher education systems that will lead to a long-term master plan for the future of higher education in Colorado. During their first meeting in October, college...